portrait
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In 1930 Grant Wood painted a double portrait of an unsmiling father and daughter standing before a house in small-town Iowa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
A pen portrait was read out by 2nd Lt George's mother, Vivienne, during the hearing.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
A portrait of the actor David Harewood hangs at the family's stately home, Harewood House in northern England, after it was discovered that his ancestors had worked on Lascelles family sugar plantations in Barbados.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
The change gives the portrait new context and, to my eyes, a better position from which to be seen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Of course, the portrait wasn’t safe with Leonard.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
A large selection of Civil War portraits features both Confederate and Union soldiers, evidence of Baltimore’s precarious situation in the conflict as part of a border state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
The pieces here range in form from figured reliefs to architectural elements to statuettes; in subject from devotional images to portraits; and in scale from the intimate to the grandly sized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Together, these 16 cosmic portraits show that galaxies are far from static collections of stars.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
As the generation directly affected by Aberfan grows older, a new question is emerging: what should happen to the portraits?
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
If you lined up a gallery of these doctors' portraits, you'd see a long row of wise faces, satin waistcoats, gold watch chains, and side-whiskers.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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